Pleasure, Beauty, and Wonder

06/12/2009

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
Mark Twain

Addressing an education conference in late 2006, Dan Gioia, then chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, said that we need "a system that grounds all students in pleasure, beauty, and wonder." He added, "If we are going to compete productively with the rest of the world, it's going to be in terms of creativity and innovation."

In reporting this bold statement, Education Week (April 1, 2009) also shared the results of a study of 150 eminent scientists from Pasteur to Einstein completed by Robert Root-Bernstein. He found that nearly all of the great inventors and scientists were also musicians, artists, writers, or poets. Galileo, for example, was a poet and literary critic. Einstein was a passionate student of the violin. And Samuel Morse, the inventor of the telegraph, was a painter.

Exchange Resources on Play

Exchange has packaged six of its play resources into a single Play Tool Kit. and is offering the entire set at a 37% discount. Resources in the kit include:

Books:

Beginnings Workshops Book #6 - Play
Promoting the Value of Play CD Book

Four Out of the Box Training Kits (Print versions):

Play and the Outdoors: What's New Under the Sun
But They're Only Playing: Interpreting Play to Parents
Supporting Constructive Play in the Wild
Designing and Creating Natural Play Environments

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